FORMATE

An Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary · 1893 · p. 3

n. Fo2rm'at. Lat., form i as. Fr., /. Ger., Form i at. a me is ens aures Salz. A salt of formic acid. The fs have in general the formula (CHOaVR, where R is a radicle of the quantivalence n. In addition there is a series of salts called the orthofs, of the general constitution CH = (OR)S. where R is a univalent radicle. [B.] [s. 97]